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| Description | |
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| Type Locality: | Milltown Quarry, Milltown, Ashover, Derbyshire, England, UK is the type locality for Ashoverite |
| Comments: | Thin platy Square-like crystals to 1mm, associated with all other zinc hydroxides |
| Habit: | Tetragonal thin tabular-platy |
| Colour: | Colourless to white, creamy |
| Quality of samples: | Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!) |
| Rarity at site: | Very Rare |
| Confirmation | |
| Validity: | Confirmed |
| Confirmation Methods: | XRD SEM-EDS |
| Analysis Reference: | NHM London |
| References | |
| References: | Min.Mag.(1988) 52, 699-702; UKJMM No10; Ford, T., A. Sarjeant & M. Smith (1993): The minerals of the Peak district of Derbyshire. UK Jour. Mines & Minerals 13, 16-55. |
| Associated minerals: | |
| Associates: | Calcite Fluorite Hemimorphite Hydrozincite Smithsonite Sweetite Unnamed (gamma-Zn(OH)2) |
| Data | |
| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Ashoverite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Milltown Quarry, Milltown, Ashover, Derbyshire, England, UK |
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